Reversible seat.



No. 849,423. PATENTED APR. 9, 1907. P. ORT.

REVERSIBLE SEAT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 13, 1906.

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FRANK ORT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

REVERSIBLE SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

Application filed November 13, 1906. Serial No. 343.206

T0 ail whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK 0R1, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in

the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Reversible Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a reversible seat having for its object to provide an improved seat which may be turned over if the upper face thereof is wet or unclean. It is particularly adapted for water-closets, but may be applied to seats of any kind.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the seat with the cover closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the seat partly reversed. Fig. 3 is a rear view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 in dicates the closet-bowl or other support. At the back this has a pair of posts 7 mounted thereon, and these posts support a cross-bar S, to the ends of which are pivotally connected the rear ends of swinging arms 9, the front ends of which are pivoted to the sides of the seatlO at or about the middle thereof. The seat is rotatable between these arms and is provided with handles 11, whereby it may be conveniently manipulated.

The cover for the seat is indicated at 12, hinged at the rear to the crossbar 8, as at 13 between the posts 7.

At 14 are indicated rods which are pivotally connected at the rear ends to the ends of the cross-bar 8 and extend along beside the top of the bowl and are turned in at the front end to rest upon said bowl, said inturned ends being provided with rubber sleeves 15, which rest upon the top of the bowl and on which the seat rests. The rods hold the rubbers in place and may be swung up so that the top of the bowl can be readily cleaned.

At the rear edge of the bowl are rubber buttons 16, 011 which the rear part of the seat rests.

In use when the cover is lifted the seat may, if desired, be raised and rotated on its pivots between the arms 9.

1. The combination with a closet-bowl, of a cross-bar supported at the rear of the bowl, arms pivoted to the ends of the cross-bar, a reversible seat pivoted between the arms, a cover hinged to the crossbar, and cushion devices connected to the bar and located under the seat in either position thereof.

2. The combination with a closetbowl, of a cross-b ar upon the rear thereof, a seat pivotally connected to the cross-bar, and swinging rods pivoted at their rear ends to the cross-bar on each side of the bowl and having cushions at their front ends adapted to rest undelir the seat and upon the top edge of the bow In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK ORT.

I/Vitnesses NELLIE FELTSKOG, H. G. BATOHELOR. 

